Professor Faber

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Fahrenheit 451 Professor Faber Who is Faber? Outward Appearance Inner Nature former job/life his view on the society old man: - "looks very old, fragile and much afraid" (page 74) description (page 74): - there was white in the flesh of his mouth - his cheeks and his hair was white - his eyes had faded, with white...

Faber as an aptronym: Faber-Castell connection to books and literature frequent use of the colour white:indication for Faber's character (compare Clarisse) loves to smell books since he is a boyretired English professor - 40 years ago the new laws supplanted the need for literature teachers afterwards he earned a bit money at the stock exchangeone of the last of his sort: - fellows are dead or ancient he is still taken by the magic of books anticipated the developmentoppressive and dehumanized societypeople are having funrecognizes the mental enfeeblement: - e.g.: the character of the Son of God in the 'parlor'"civilisation is flinging itself to pieces" reflection of his behavior little interest in modern technology regarding its entertainment valuefeels guilty and sees himself as a "coward": - saw the way things were going down, but said nothing started to protest when it was too late maybe: the comparison with the National Socialism as a dystopian element character traits realistic estimationcareful: - doesn't want to be burnt - hides in his houses, because of the fear of the system nervous, trembling, doubtful not a religious man, but stomach for the Biblevery intellectualaptitude for intervention passive character, nevertheless the voice of Bradbury's social critism language ironyrhymeless poemsreflected use of his voice: - power, cadenced, faint value system/ importance of book 1. quality, texture of information 2. leisure to digest it 3. the right to carry out actions based on what people learned from the first two not books themselves are the reason for pleasure and fortune, but they include most of the three missing things to make people (really) happy Montag MildredBeatty FaberClarisse character constellation "black" "white" relation to Montag Montag's teacher and mentormake the decision for the revolution together: - work together against the oppressive societyFaber realizes the chance of Montag's plan to undermine the totalitarian system"maximum of comfort and a minimum of chance": Montag as the active participant <-> Faber the wise participant "Montag felt himself turn" contrasting attitude

wants Montag wants to to think independently dominate him Faber becomes more active because of Montag! concerted action in part III Montag reports Faber what happened (burns his own house, kills Beatty,..)Faber livens up Montag and feels lively, not afraidFaber travels towards St. Louis, to meet an (unemployed) book printerFaber advises Montag to escape to the tracks, because there are former academicslater they want to meet in St.Louistogether they prevent that the mechanical hound is able to find them The End Faber wants to take the tram early not sure whether he dies because of the atomic bomb special character traits characterisation character constellation Faber as a film character? Is Faber a flat and static character (not changing his actions and attitudes)or a round and dynamic character (changing his attitudes and actions)? His character traits are as well flat and static (same attitudes) as round and dynamic (becomes more active)! sources Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451 picture sources: http://blog.roodo.com/0753avs/56d635cd.jpghttp://www.presse-archiv.uni-wuppertal.de/2009/p_pics/Aretz_portrait_250dpi.jpghttp://www.kunstmann.de/_images_global/personen/220b/248/adorf-mario.jpghttp://www.asien-news.de/welt/albert-einstein/13002http://blogs.smus.bc.ca/review/wp-content/blogs.dir/10/files/fahrenheit-451/will.jpg